Human disturbance promotes herbivory by leaf-cutting ants in the Caatinga dry forest

A framework for deriving measures of chronic anthropogenic disturbance: Surrogate, direct, single and multi-metric indices in Brazilian Caatinga

(2018) Xavier Arnan et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on the specialization of ant-plant mutualistic networks in the Caatinga, a Brazilian dry forest

(2018) Talita Câmara et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Precipitation mediates the effect of human disturbance on the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

(2017) Kátia F. Rito et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf-cutting ant populations profit from human disturbances in tropical dry forest in Brazil

(2017) Felipe F. S. Siqueira et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Euphorbiaceae responses to chronic anthropogenic disturbances in Caatinga vegetation: from species proliferation to biotic homogenization

(2017) Kátia F. Rito et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga

(2016) José Domingos Ribeiro-Neto et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Foraging activity of leaf-cutting ants changes light availability and plant assemblage in Atlantic forest

(2016) MICHELE M. CORRÊA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogenetic impoverishment of plant communities following chronic human disturbances in the Brazilian Caatinga

(2016) Elâine M. S. Ribeiro et al.   ECOLOGY

Roads increase population growth rates of a native leaf-cutter ant in Neotropical savannahs

(2016) Ernane H. M. Vieira-Neto et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biotic drivers of seedling establishment in Neotropical savannas: selective granivory and seedling herbivory by leaf-cutter ants as an ecological filter

(2016) Alan N. Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants

(2016) Alejandro G. Farji-Brener et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Altered herb assemblages in fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic forest

(2015) Patrícia B. Lima et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Implications from the Use of Non-timber Forest Products on the Consumption of Wood as a Fuel Source in Human-Dominated Semiarid Landscapes

(2015) Maria Clara B. T. Cavalcanti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Do leaf-cutting ants benefit from forest fragmentation? Insights from community and species-specific responses in a fragmented dry forest

(2015) Corina A. Barrera et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance drives the biological impoverishment of the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

(2015) Elâine M. S. Ribeiro et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

The Multiple Impacts of Leaf-Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human-Modified Neotropical Forests

(2014) Inara R. Leal et al.   BIOTROPICA

A meta-analysis of leaf-cutting ant nest effects on soil fertility and plant performance

(2014) ALEJANDRO G. FARJI-BRENER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Leucoagaricus gongylophorus Produces Diverse Enzymes for the Degradation of Recalcitrant Plant Polymers in Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungus Gardens

(2013) Frank O. Aylward et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: topsoil and litter perturbations aroundAtta cephalotesnests reduce nutrient availability

(2013) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Does the edge effect influence plant community structure in a tropical dry forest?

(2013) Diogo Gallo Oliveira et al.   REVISTA ARVORE

Ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the seasonally dry tropical forest of northeastern Brazil: a compilation from field surveys in Bahia and literature records

(2013) Mônica A. Ulysséa et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

The ‘few winners and many losers’ paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

(2012) Marcelo Tabarelli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Leaf-cutting ants proliferate in the Amazon: an expected response to forest edge?

(2011) Christoph Dohm et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Performance and fate of tree seedlings on and around nests of the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes: Ecological filters in a fragmented forest

(2010) SEBASTIAN T. MEYER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Edge-induced narrowing of dietary diversity in leaf-cutting ants

(2010) P.F. Falcão et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Predictable waves of sequential forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city

(2010) A. Ahrends et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

(2009) R. Toby Pennington et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Persisting Hyper-abundance of Leaf-cutting Ants (Attaspp.) at the Edge of an Old Atlantic Forest Fragment

(2009) Sebastian T. Meyer et al.   BIOTROPICA

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How leaf-cutting ants impact forests: drastic nest effects on light environment and plant assemblages

(2009) Michele M. Corrêa et al.   OECOLOGIA

Hunting strategies used in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil

(2009) Rômulo RN Alves et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Edge-mediated reduction of phorid parasitism on leaf-cutting ants in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

(2008) Walkiria R. de Almeida et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Do herbivores exert top-down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf-cutter ants

(2008) Alan N. Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Drastic erosion in functional attributes of tree assemblages in Atlantic forest fragments of northeastern Brazil

(2007) Bráulio A. Santos et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION